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Village Voice executive editor Richard Goldstein put Croce "under the aegis of the Great Newt, [where] a traditionalist may safely rage against the rise of minorities." Conservative art critic Hilton Kramer saw things differently, calling the piece "the most definitive essay on the arts in the 1990s that any American critic has yet written ... a landmark in the cultural history...
Croce, of course, insists that her essay was occasioned only by the Still/Here tour, but both she and Jones are conscious of political influences at work in the controversy. "This is really a little scuffle," Jones told Time, "but I wonder about the winds blowing around in the country-whether there isn't a plan of retrenchment we can't even see." As for Croce, she was disgusted that "some of the angriest responses have come from people who think the Republican victory emboldened me to write this. I have been thinking about Bill T. Jones for years...
...Croce, her essay is nothing if not a declaration of independence from victim art. Some of her supporters have pointed out that feelings of pity or guilt can be used by artists as a bribe, just as an unearned emotion of political solidarity was often used in the 1930s. But novelist Reynolds Price, who has survived spinal cancer and last year published an acclaimed memoir about his experience (A Whole New Life), wonders if Still/Here represents a new body of art that will be increasingly hard to ignore. "There are a tremendous number of people who survive in ways that...
...emphasis wasn't on getting drilled and doing problems," Jan says. "We would do essay-type answers even in math...
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